Week 30

We launched our week off with a pancake party!  Each drop of our syrup was thoroughly enjoyed and relished!  We continued our work on persuasive writing.  We are crafting five paragraph essays and using lots of details and evidence to support our thesis.  In reading workshop we talked about how all main characters travel along a "story mountain."  Readers expect that a character will face a problem that gets bigger and bigger, reaches a turning point, then is resolved.  Students worked through their fiction books to locate all of the problems that their characters resolved.  In math our focus of the week was finding the area of objects.  We measured all sorts of things around the classroom.  In our mystery science lesson we learned about different types of bridges.  Next week students will get the opportunity to build their own, while testing its integrity with pennies!